it was a little girl wasn't the problem you were you know the way it's always greeted. in an exclusive interview the syrian president slams foreign backing for the rebels as the main cause for the escalating conflict in this country. and targeting tehran more crippling sanctions are planned for iran on top of the latest restrictions approved by barack obama and his first foreign policy decision following reelection . and the selective trip advice from tripoli libya is busy attracting tourists but visitors are being kept in the dark and tragedies like the violence and assault of bani walid.

world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me. well syria's president says the conflict in his country has escalated to because western powers have handpicked him as their latest bogeyman and an exclusive interview with r t bashar al assad it warns that any direct foreign intervention in syria would spark a global disaster of sophie shevardnadze spoke to the embattled leader in damascus . that he's not a western puppet he also denies to fuck that civil war is taking place in this country he's saying that it's not civil war it's a conflict where he has to fight different fractions of terrorism he says on the fact that the financing of this terrorist fractions was unprecedented and it was coming from abroad he told me that if the sinuses were to stop then he would probably need about two weeks more to restore peace in his country and he also said

that if the west were to intervene militarily it would have to do from atlantic to pacific and no one would be a gain from that and he also said that west tends to create enemies for themselves like communism in iraq saddam hussein and he feels that bashar al assad in syria is the new enemy not syria but he himself so he feels that the fact that conflict has asked a lady because the west has created a new anime in the space i wasn't told that there wasn't a problem you know the way. it was because we knew that. for different reasons we want to create a new. program that the president has to do first of all you have to focus on. what they say i asked him it's not just the west but a lot of countries have betrayed you on the first occasion why do you have so many so many enemies in the arab world he said well actually

a lot of arab countries support me but they're afraid to say it out loud i asked him why and he said because they're all under the strength and power of petrodollars i also asked him about turkey and if the war with turkey was a real possibility and he didn't he doesn't believe that there's going to be an actual war with turkey but he also emphasizing the fact that the turkish people are the enemies of syrian people and they're always been a friendly nation it's carried on and his government that's the problem and that's against bashar and wants to all especially because god wants to reassure his and strengthen his political position in turn. and in the region personally but when you. go to money and you control as it was doing both many. different groups. which is. not to be ready for but do you go to think that he's asking do you regret anything what's your biggest mistake he says of course i have requests and of course i have made mistakes but when i ask him what is your biggest mistake he wouldn't give me

a precise answer he said it's too early to talk about precise mistakes and precise regrets because the war or the call think is still going on i also asked him if he were to turn the clock back to fifteenth of march that's when the protests started to escalate would he do anything differently and he said no i wouldn't because within the marches within the protest marches there were people who started to shoot innocent civilians and the government forces so the government army had no other choice than to respond with force do what i did exactly the same exact thing . different. and just against the group but i always thought you didn't start. because you will lose most but within bills you have militants who stop with the civilians. at the same time so he said he wouldn't change much about a year and a half ago when the protests started to grow and escalate he would do exactly the same. well you can watch that full exclusive interview with syria's president

bashar al assad at five thirty pm g.m.t. here on our t.v. it's also available for you right now on our website just head over to our dot com . i'm syrian i mean. i mean in syria but even so you know the incident. that are to exclusive friday through sunday on our to our t. dot com all right well prominent syrian dissidents and exiled opposition figures are meeting in qatar at the moment to forge a broader alliance against umask us the syrian national council which of course is the main umbrella group is leading those talks but activists turkmani says the external opposition has no sway over the fight on the frontline i don't see he was critical of the for the student national council as a body but i'm not against many of the people who formed this camera so yes it was

formed with lots of external support maybe external. but they don't matter a lot to what matter is the people inside syria people who are opposing the regime inside the country everybody is asking the opposition to come in one correlation and coalitions are always weak by nature and they fall apart in front of the tough challenges and we are in front of a very very tough crisis i can sit here in london and talk rationally about political solutions but if i have an eighteen year old who seen his mother being killed or his house being demolished i can say he has no excuse to arm and i do also blame any external player who exploited those young people and put their arms in their hands and send them money and weapons. well u.s. lawmakers are reportedly preparing a fresh set of sanctions against iran targeting its business transactions with other countries this is of course on top of the latest round of restrictions

imposed by president barack obama just after he won reelection to the white house the situation has also been strained further by claims that iranian jets fired at an american drone flying just coast last week. has the details president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the u.s. being the world police the administration has imposed financial sanctions against the iranian officials will be u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any rain that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which proved to be crippling for the iranian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation of that

. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the u. was might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say the said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody hit by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the u.s. . and has raised concerns about the legality of such executions there has been a lot of criticism especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the meantime this administration is said to rely on drones more and more another drone

related story this week the pentagon said the reunion military had fired upon but they'd not hit a u.s. drone flying close to the pentagon claimed the drone was there on a surveillance mission so looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he takes the idea of america being the world police very seriously but the question is who's going to hold that world police itself accountable. and political analyst mohammad marandi says that it is unlikely tehran is going to bow to western pressure. the fact that the obama administration is imposing new sanctions almost immediately after the elections is a very negative message despite the fact that the sanctions really won't have any effect on iran but it's basically basically signaling to iran that the united states isn't prepared to move towards

a rapprochement and to move towards resolving the issues from the iranian perspective the ball is clearly in the western court they are the ones who are acting aggressively against iran making military threats against the country imposing embargoes to intentionally hurt ordinary iranians and supporting terrorist organizations carrying out cyber attacks the americans are being very provocative by sending drones over iran in space or very close iranian airspace and but i think the iranian response is even more significant the iranians have shown or stating basically that they are not going to take any form of aggression from the americans lightly and that they will respond robustly the iranians aren't intimidated they take an independent foreign policy they support the palestinians as opposed to the regime which the iranian see as an apartheid regime is really completely unacceptable to the united states and i think that the americans fear that other countries in the region will sort of try to become more independent of

the united states and europe like you ron. well coming up next selling vacations by hushing up hostilities in libya is marketed as a tourist hot spot but travel agents are accused of copying western media by stand silent on the violence. and americans stranded in qatar barred from coming home to the u.s. to visit his ailing mother and in a few minutes why his muslim a could be the only reason more on this and other stories right after the break. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and good news how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as

a strength in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia now it's trios come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all phones who brought that idea to life. five years ago of a bill to dock kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up

to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become deaf hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their websites and they're in touch with their busy maga twenty four seven on the phone. but children are the most important thing my only interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether part of schemas huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts.

all right well libya has been described as a great many deal of things but have you ever considered to be a holiday hotspot believe or not it seems that some people do although there is one glaring amission along the excursions which is a siege ravaged city of bani walid artists our firth reports on the travel agents who are hiding tragedy from tourists we're here at the world travel market a trade show you taking place in london or people can come and select the holiday inspiration that scouts exotic spot for a honey way one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist that's good and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting to the site is our political side. it's completely safe going around today it's got to be safe more than even towns to big towns like london like new york but there's somewhere there's not mentioned in the guide burke bani walid a desert town this remain loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just

a few hours try southeast of the traditional tourist destination tripoli but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the. r.t. run story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being shake a stick it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out of the conversation when i saw this. it was a ghost with surprise and i came to the feedback of the situation at the moment in libya and if we have so many people there it means our situation is that it becoming more stable and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we would about what's happening at the moment i knew were

legal but do you mean what's happened was been happening there's been fighting do you know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people eat telling them about what's been happening in benny walid at the moment. this is. what it's come for the. reason because it was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations the cain media and government remain resolutely silent i've got to sort of package wish as. success is very important for nato so we have the speed of these countries to be liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of the travel information then you will be given reasons to visit livi or undoubtedly there are many visit concerning silence that's

being echoed by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like bani walid the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge the deep divides that remain in the country but none of that you're going to read about in the. surf artsy london. well libya's government says bani walid is recovering quickly after armed militias left the city in a virtual ruins spoke to a man whose family lived through the seas he asked us to shield his identity for his safety when he told us that there is still no peace in bani walid. governmental t.v.'s ability to google because of militias. attacking and killing innocent citizens can see. city leave you. out of supplies no.

this included minutes in food. that a life in the sixty's. with guns and bullets and use. of but he would eat this is a given definition and knows. how use the phrase know the photo and night and the young fellow who tool to another to. be able. to do about the business of the league in the united states is was. a bigger ticket to cities with guns in it on the different where they know no god is running the government of libya. well more world news for you this hour turkish fighter jets and helicopters have

been barred kurdish militants along the border with iraq killing at least fourteen people there the strikes were reportedly launched after security forces got a tip off from locals about the build up of separatist activity in that area now the kurdistan workers party or the k.k.k. is finding turkey to try and carve out an independence day for themselves of a forty thousand people have been killed since the start of that insurgency in nineteen eighty-four. meanwhile thousands of some off the muslims have taken to the streets of cairo demanding the introduction of a long rally comes amid fears dispute between a small mists and liberals over the wording of egypt's new constitution. the drafting of the new framework is the latest step in the country's modernization after the ousting of hosni mubarak in a popular uprising last year. meanwhile a series of explosions have ripped through a chemical plant in quebec claiming the lives of two people injuring at least

nineteen more now a massive initial blast was followed by several smaller ones raising concerns over toxic smoke as well as contamination around that industrial plant the cause of the explosion is not yet. revelations of a massive fraud and embezzlement involving hundreds of millions of dollars are hogging the headlines right here in russia it's emerged that some of the country's most ambitious projects including its satellite positioning system called were plagued by corruption there's also a scandal at the highest levels of the military argues andrew farmer has more. this is part of the russian government's wide a crackdown on corruption and today having covered two major scandals involving for all the first was a two hundred million dollar embezzlement of funds during the global mass project that is the russian satellite navigation system that was meant to rival the american g.p.s.

system but after two and a half year investigation the russian border chamber has now come out and said it believes two hundred million dollars was embezzled and on top of this they also found that during the apec summit last september held in stock in russia is stored at around three million dollars this embezzled during the development of facilities there say two major scandals here this also coming on a day that it was announced that a new man is the way forward to health reform the russian military and also stamp out corruption there his name is clearly and he was appointed incidentally on the recommendation of should we go with a new defense minister who himself was appointed after the dismissal of anatoly so to call this week he was relieved of his duties amid allegations of corruption in the fraudulent side of military office a well below its market value so three major incidents this week i think the government is trying to show us is taking corruption seriously but more importantly

showing that it is taking action. all right well looks like there will be no more f. words at formula one race you can discover online what's made the motor sports bosses take measures against cursing and why they're telling drivers to bite their tongues . plus the time for change in china and as a country to fares for is a once in a decade power handover which of course for a closely following for you at r.t.e. dot com. all right well an american living and working in qatar has been barred by the u.s. authorities from going back to his native oklahoma to visit his ailing mother an air force veteran said dick long had converted to islam about more than a decade ago and is now on a federal no fly list but he has never been told as to why well adam soltani from the council of american islamic relations believes that his muslim name is what rendered him effectively and under in the united states. the circumstances are

pretty much heartbreaking because he is going to start and that he may never get to see his mother again and that's a reality we have to deal with which parent would have won their last wish to be with their children there's no indication of any reason for him to be on this no fly list he has never been convicted of any criminal activity he has served his country for ten years in the u.s. air force and he has indicated that there is nothing he can think of that would link him to anything criminal in nature you know there are cases kerry has dealt with in the past of individuals who were placed on a no fly list sometimes it just has to do with the name their name may sound like someone who was affiliated with criminal activities or or something of the sort we've never really been given answers by the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security so we're not one hundred percent sure it's kind of speculation at this point but nevertheless you know he's indicated that he has a law abiding u.s. citizen and really cannot think of anything that would prevent him from travel.

well ceremonies across germany will mark a pivotal date in that country's history of armor ninth saw the berlin wall come down exactly twenty three years ago today it was of course the end of the cold war and when the two countries a sensibly became one but as artillery of the national reports divisions still remain. made in love at barely produced in western germany by a choreographer from the former d.d.r. in the eighty's when one nation was riven into different fled what he saw as a prison for the promise of freedom is an artist who needed inspiration who didn't have the chance to see the outside world that were telling us in the world waits roots in the west when we were different what emotional journey was and that. he never came back because even twenty years after the fall of the berlin wall the east is still locked in the dark past. soviet era infrastructure derailed never

really adapting to the capitalist reality reunification it turns out was more annexation what happened politically and in the way of international laws that west germany became bigger if they would have taken the chance and it's time to say we abolish both germany's we abolish the west of germany and we abolish the eastern regime that is germany and we make something new we make a new germany this might have been much better the forging of one nation was the end of another this is all that remains from a once large power plant in the village of men that stein in eastern germany it used to generate electricity for railroads and trams shortly after reunification the plant was shut down as happened with most industry in the former g.d.r. abandoned buildings like this and deliberate dated are still scattered all across the east here silence reminders of the former republics power the two decades following the reunification so a million and a half had west most to youngsters live in an aging population behind slowly that

might be changing since two thousand the migration numbers are declining and in two thousand and eleven we had for the first time note not more out migrants than in migrants these people live in britain statistics they all see the nickname for born easterners and they've returned home and everybody want to come but sometimes opportunity is not given it's a responsibility of the political to encourage people to stay here to give them like a maybe. opportunity to earn money but they are using eastern greed and western guile to help themselves probably they all had similar problems like. where do i find a flood or if i want to buy a house all these kind of stuff so the next project was that we build the workload where we. try to collect all the information but the challenges the tougher to

overcome may be unspoken the border between their video and us germany was one of the hottest across in the world this brown path is what used to be a minefield and imposing construction with c.c.t.v. cameras barbed wire fences and watchtowers every one of the hot kilometers it was all taken away off to reunion this place is now a museum but while the war the may have become part of history division remains the boundary in some people's minds is as solid as ever and until these barrier falls true reunification will remain just an illusion or if an ocean r.t. reporting from germany. right after a bitter white house lost is a time for america's republican party to reinvent itself that topic up next on a cross talk don't go away.

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